Kids given hand on road safety
February 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
THE Northern Territory Government is introducing road safety classes to the school curriculum across the Territory in a bid to make roads safer.
Transport Minister Gerry McCarthy released the Safer Roads school curriculum for early childhood teachers at Driver Primary School on Thursday .
The government has spent around $100,000 on the programme aimed at transition to Year 10 students.
Children with the Power to impress
February 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
WHEN Xavier Clarke visited Manunda Terrace Primary School during his formative St Kilda days, he was none the wiser about putting a fellow Territorian on the path to football’s big stage.
That starry-eyed student was Port Adelaide’s Marlon Motlop who happily returned the favour to a new generation of captivated youngsters from Essington and Parap Primary Schools last week.
My School cash coup for Humpty Doo
February 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
A TERRITORY school has been singled out for special treatment by the NT and federal governments.
Humpty Doo Primary, on the outskirts of Darwin, will receive extra money for literacy and numeracy classes.
NT Education Minister Chris Burns said the school was chosen for an unspecified cash injection after the publication of national benchmark results on the My School website.
Community the key to school’s top marks
February 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
ONE of the best performing Territory public schools sits in a hamlet where locals wave at strangers, teachers know the names of their students’ pets, and the school bell is an old-fashioned hand-held one.
Adelaide River School’s quiet success was made clear after the launch of the My School website – it came in the top 10 NT schools in a number of 2009 national benchmark tests. In fact it beat all public and private schools to top Year 5 writing.
Principal Tony Clegg lives next door to the school.
More time in classroom for Territory schoolkids
February 10, 2010 Leave a Comment
TERRITORY school children could be spending longer time in the classroom after the Federal Government revealed plans to rejuvenate disadvantaged schools.
The Government will pour hundreds of millions of dollars into disadvantaged schools identified by the My School website, funding longer school hours and specialist teachers.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revealed her plan includes providing breakfast and after school activities for underprivileged students.
Principals get ready for rise of Rosebery schools
February 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
TWO principals have been appointed for the $59 million primary and middle schools due to open their doors for the first time next year.
Adam Voigt – formerly of Darwin’s Ludmilla Primary – and Lorraine Evans – formerly of Darwin’s Nightcliff Middle School – will man the helms of Rosebery primary and middle schools respectively.
Top End student results revisited
February 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
THE Government is countering the Opposition’s chart of collated school results with one of its own – and this one has more green bits.
The chart shows the majority of schools in the Darwin, Palmerston and rural area have at least 80 per cent of students performing at or above national minimum standards.
The chart, like that made up by the Country Liberals last week, is based on figures from the My School website.
CSC cards kids who can’t pay
February 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
POOR students are being segregated by the use of special coloured cards at a Territory high school.
Casuarina Senior College is issuing special white ID cards to students whose parents can’t or won’t pay a $250 fee for its “resource hire scheme”.
Those who do pay their fees get a different coloured card, and are then allowed to borrow resources – such as text books – from the school’s library.
Croc boy hopes to fly high
February 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
WHILE some kids spend their school holidays going to the movies, relaxing by the pool or hanging out with friends, others are putting in the hard yards for their future careers.
Year 11 Darwin High School student, Karl Dank, falls into the latter group and has crammed a lot in to life for a 16-year-old.
Karl was one of 20 indigenous high school students from around Australia who spent a week at University of NSW in January as part of the 13th Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School.
NT students up there with the best, say Govt
February 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
THE Government is crying foul over figures compiled by the opposition that show urban Territory schools are failing to meet the national average in country-wide tests.
Education Minister Chris Burns yesterday said the charts were misleading.
“What it’s not taking into account is that we’ve got 86 per cent of students (in Darwin, Palmerston and the rural area) who are meeting the national benchmark,” he said.
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